BODY: Athens County school districts have turned to teacher cuts to help eliminate or prevent debt, but local student-to-teacher ratios almost always remained below the state average during the past five years.
An articulation agreement between Ohio University and Hocking College will simplify the transfer process for OU's No. 1 contributor of transfer students.
During a stoppage in the third game of Ohio's triple-header against Ball State on Sunday, center fielder Willie Walker laid down in the outfield grass.
Verizon Wireless will be able to build a cell phone tower on top of the city parking garage after Athens City Council voted yesterday to authorize the 10-year agreement.
Get those hate letters ready, baseball purists. Work on those boos, National League fans across the country. Keep your summer schedule busy, Mr. Selig.
Change is good. Sometimes.
Charges could soon be filed against the driver of a recycling truck that backed into an Ohio University student between Alden Library and Ellis Hall on March 30.
With budget cuts looming nearby, it would be an absolute degradation to off-campus students to lose valuable programs through the Off-Campus and Community Services office. In the less than two years that the Community Assistant program has been in place at OU, it has quickly become nationally recognized as a trailblazer among programs of its kind. As a current CA and off-campus resident, the response I've received from fellow students has been overwhelmingly positive. Not only do we build community off-campus through social events, but we help students transition to a more independent living situation, either by informing them of not-so-obvious noise and trash laws or empowering them to demand clean and safe housing from their landlords.
Misato Kawamura, a 19-year-old student from Japan, had just completed her first week at OU. Then on March 30, a recycling truck backed over her as she tried to cross the service drive between Ellis Hall and Alden Library. Kawamura suffered leg and pelvic bone fractures and might have to use a wheelchair for three months.
Administration officials are misleading students regarding the recent sports cuts. The university has cited Title IX and financial reasons for cutting the sports. Hocutt has continually said that due to inequality in the Athletic Department, the NCAA would not recertify the university next year unless the school added another women's sport. He goes on to say that this is not feasible because of the financial crisis facing the Athletic Department. Seem odd? Well it does to me, especially since former Athletic Director Boeh said in a March 2005 interview with The Athens News that Ohio University was one of the top schools in the country for Title IX compliance. So how did we all of a sudden fall out of compliance with Title IX? After consulting with Title IX experts.
More than a year after creating the President's Office of Diversity, President Roderick McDavis is changing things again. In an announcement from his home at 29 Park Place, McDavis proposed a new single office to house all departments of diversity. This new office combines the multicultural offices, LGBT program center, Women's Center and Disability Services. Basically, unless you are a white, non-disabled, heterosexual male, there is a home for you under this new umbrella of diversity. The office will be led by a newly created vice provost position, which will be filled after a national search.
BODY: After about 10 years in Pamplona, the location of Ohio University's Spanish study abroad program will change to Toledo, Spain, starting Fall Quarter.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland visited campus yesterday to promote a proposal to cap tuition rates at public universities that would compel Ohio University to make difficult decisions to curb a mounting debt crisis.
Ohio University researchers can now examine and analyze gene information on campus, as the ribbon was cut on a new research lab Friday in Porter Hall.
Ohio University officials will decide whether to offer monetary incentives to encourage employee participation in health improvement programs within the next year.
Although Ohio University President Roderick McDavis supported employee and faculty raises, his recommended budget proposes shifting $1.5 million in health care costs to employees.
As part of his budget plan for fiscal year 2008, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis wants to invest $1 million into a rainy day fund.
Multimedia artist Philip Mallory Jones hasn't only made art his life's work ' he's made his life his artwork.
I found Ashley Herzog's piece on the effects of Title IX on university athletes profoundly offensive. Ms. Herzog's statements about feminists were extremely inflammatory and baseless. The author of this piece seems to be unaware of the fact that the same feminist-busybodies who fought for the supposedly unfair quotas and gender-proportionality in publicly funded university sports programs also fought hard for Ms. Herzog's right to equal access to educational opportunities, as well as many other rights that college women now take for granted, including the right to live off-campus with a male partner and the right to live on-campus unmolested by strict dress codes and curfews. Apparently Ms. Herzog did not research the Title IX amendments very carefully. Section 1681 of the educational amendments of 1972 states that No person in the United States shall
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